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TCRN Staff:68,459 square feet, of prime beachfront real estate in Costa Rica can be yours for only $50,000,000 (yes that’s $50 million, that's seven (7) zero's).More than 10 times the average USA mansion, the developers call it the...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreThere’s a lot of talk these days about a “revolution in consciousness.” The vast portion of it is just that—talk.It simply isn’t true to say “we’re in the middle of a revolution in consciousness.” But...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreStephen Hawking recently said that we should avoid contact with extraterrestrials, because they “might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet.” Now he says “science makes God unnecessary.” Hawking...

TCRN Staff$2.8 million to supply Costa Rica's Immigration Authority with Foreign Resident CardsThe credentials feature optical security media, the same technology at the heart of the U.S. "Green Card." Delivery of cards is expected to be completed by the...

TCRN StaffCosta Rica is 189 years old, and she looks great!!! How far has she come in 189 years? What makes Costa Rica the “The Jewel of Central America”?Interestingly enough… Costa Rica was the first Central American country...

A preliminary ruling last week by the Constitutional Chamber of Costa Rica's Supreme Court (Sala IV) that police cannot stop and search citizens without “a solid indication that the person has committed a crime” has caused strong opposition.Public Security...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreSociety and SolitudeThe world grows more parlous with each passing month, with no sign of genuine hope for humanity’s future. Here in ‘the greatest country in the world,’ the idea and image of America is...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreOverhanging the gorge are great angular outcroppings of volcanic rock—solid and sharp edged protrusions from the gently sloping grasslands behind them. Many have huge slabs balanced on top of them, some looking like they had been...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreI had a cousin, born a few days after I was in the same Midwestern town, with whom I was close growing up. In some ways Mike and I were as different as night and day,...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreChina just passed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Never mind that per capita income in China is still at Algeria’s level. It’s an important milestone, though it raises the question of qualitative...